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Choosing The Right Paper for Ink Jet Printing Benjamin Frank, test linkSenior Research Associate, International Paper

You bring home your new ink jet printer, hook it up to your fancy
computer, and are ready to print out a picture of your dog, kids, or artwork. You
play with the image on your computer for hours, making sure it is just right. Then
you send it to your printer, and out it comes. The colors are off, the lines are
blurry, and the image you get looks nothing like what is on your screen. Before you
take your printer back, you may want to check your paper.__ The paper you bought
with the printer is often the most important part of how your print appears. While
you may have spent hundreds or thousands of dollars on your home or small office
computer hardware (computer, monitor, printer, etc.), other people primarily see
the "hard copy" output you produce. It is the image, the output, which
we generally look at in the end. To get the best print, it is important to choose
the right paper.__ Ink jet printing is like painting
with markers or watercolors. Ink is applied to the paper and the liquid part evaporates
leaving the color behind. Instead of using a brush, ink jet printing places tiny,
discrete drops of ink of different colors on the surface of the paper, forming dots
which your eye blends together to create the image. Ink jet printing has many advantages:
a wide variety of media (glossy and matte photo paper, cards, party hats, business
cards, prints from 8.5" to 60+" wide, etc.); low cost machines which are
compact, versatile, and require few repairs; and the ability to print easily in black
and colors.

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